Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-04-09

n Southern California, and some of the
southern coast counties comparatively
little grain has been sown this season
owing to the lateness of rains in those
distincts. But those localities have not
usually contributed much to the cereal
sack. The fruit crop is every where
promising, and may be double that
of the last season. Hops also bid fair
to yield well, No spring ever opened
more auspiciously for Sac
r0naeaato Bee.
IMPROVED WHITE WASH
At this season of the year when the
Spring cleaning and frightening up is
an mportantfeature,a and there is sea-
sonable demand for white-wash, the
following formula will be found to be
a most superior one: Nice unslacked
lime, one half bushel; Stake it with
boiling water; cover it during the pro-
cess to keep in the steam; strain the
liquid through a fine seive or strainer
and add to it salt one peck, previously
well dissolved in water; rice three pounds
boiling hot; Spanish whiting one-half
pound; clean, nice glue one pound, pre-
viously dissolved by soaking it well
and then hanging it over slow fire in
a small kettle immersed in a larger one
filled with water; now add hot water,
five gallons, to the mixture, stir it well
and let it stand few days covered from
the dirt. 1t should be put on hot. For
this purpose it can be kept in kettle
on a portable furnace. Coloring matter
dissolved in alcohol may be put in and
made of any shade.
MINNESOTA INSTITUTES.
W. D. Hoard of the Fort Atkinson,
Wis, Dairyman has an appreciatlve
Minnesota constituency, largely for the
reason that he is apt to say the right
thing in the right place, and every one
comedies that he knows good thing
when he sees it. He has lately attended
the Farmers Institutes at Albert Lea
and LIE Sueur and gives his opinion in
the following: Minnesota has the in
stitute business started and it will not
be long before her farmers will be
abreast of those in any other state in
the study and discussion of important
farm questions.
BREEDING COWS.
Maj Alvord thinks that each man
should breed his own COWS. Half is in
the blood of the descent, and half in care
and feed. We cannot mix the blood
and get a satisfactory result. The gen
eral purpose COW is a myth. Milk is
used for sale as food, for cheese and for
butter. 1t is in the total solids in milk
that it's food value consists. The quail
ty of the cheese varies in different breeds.
Generally milk that is good for butter
is good for cheese, For butter it is the
best economy to get the largest amount
of milk. A pound from seven or eight
quarts is better than from II to 13quarts
The rhubarb needs division of the
roots and planting in new place every
few years. Fall is rather the best time
for this, but if done early in the spring,
before growth begins, it will do as well.
The ground should be rich and deep,
and the sets placed with the top of the
buds two inches below the surface.
Plants from seeds differ so much that if
one needs new plants it is best to OBJ
tain roots OF some of the we'll known
varieties. Myatts Linnaeus is large;
tender, good favored and very early.
CURE FOR sNAKE-BTrEs.
The other day a horse in Irwin Coun-
ty, Ca, was bitten on the nose by a
rattlesnake. He was at once dosed
with sweet milk and alum, and then
three bottles of turpentine were heated
and the mouths of the bottle placed in
succession over the part bitten. It is
said that the green poison could be
plainly seen as it was being drawn into
the bottles. The horse recovered.
FARM AND GARDEN.
The United States Commissioner of
Agriculture has just issued a supple
mentary general index of the Agricul-
tural Reports for 1S77-S5 inclusive.
This, with two previous indexes, com
pletes the whole down to 1885, The
reports contain of course, much dry read
ing yet to the student in agriculture they
are mostValuable. Unfortunate, the full
set of volumes cannot now be obtained,
and is not found except in libraries
whose owners were careful to have the
report from year to year. The complete
sets, including the agricultural matters
in the Patent-Ofice reports, before the
Department of A griculture was organic
ed, extends back to year 1887.
A Frenchman supplies prepared and
warm food to the milch COWS of Paris.
The feed is delivered twice a day in
covered barrels hot from steam watts.
1t consists of chaffed fodder, roots, pea,
bean, or linseed meal, rye, barley, maize
A cow can thus be fed on Il cents
daily, and the rations are free to be
always analysed at the contractors ex.
pense.
One way to improve the market fol
truck and small fruits is to diminish the
quantity and improve the quality of the
produce taken to market. Would il
not pay better in the end to assert anc
Gull closely, keep all inferior stuff al
home to feed the stock, and send only
the choicest to market?
Green rye is growing in favor among
dairymen as a forage crop for milcf
COWS. It not only causes an increase
in the quantity of milk, but the quality
of cream and butter is said to be i'm.
proved by its use.
There is no doubt but hardwood floors
Should be used in craamarias Mhar